NEWS

Reem is planning to release in mid 2015 her next album, "Reem Kelani: Live at the Tabernacle" on Fuse Records. It was recorded at a memorable concert in November 2012 as part of the Nour Festival. Please support her Kickstarter appeal to enable production of this album. The appeal expires mid-day Wednesday 25 March 2015.

Once this album is done, Reem looks forward to resuming work on her magnum opus on Sayyid Darwish, which has been variously interrupted in recent years. We hope to record further tracks in Cairo later this year, with a view to a possible release date for this album in 2016. The programme Reem wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4, Songs for Tahrir, about the Egyptian uprising in 2011 and the sound of Sayyid Darwish's songs ringing out in Tahrir Square, stands as a reminder of the Egyptian people's finest hour.

Reem's From Palestine to Portugal commission, originally for Musicport 2008, remains a unique mixing of Arabic and Portuguese voices, of Fado and Arabic music, and of the verse of Palestinian national poet, Mahmoud Darwish, and Portuguese Nobel laureate, Jose Saramago. For a taster, click here: Naufrįgio / 'Aashiqun min Filistin (Shipwreck / Lover from Palestine).